Barbara Shannon - The CEO Board - ATHENA

Barbara Shannon is a CEO coach and advisor to mid-market businesses. Her CEO peer groups, TheCEOBoard and ATHENA - The Peer Group for Exceptional Women Solopreneurs, provide high-performance direction, coaching and networking to a select collective of exceptional Bay Area business leaders. Barbara is a seeker of CEO clients who pair a holistic view of business, community, and family with a persistent drive for personal and professional growth. Barbara founded and led two New York-based start-ups and spent 9 years working with multi-national enterprise clients as a senior executive at Deloitte Consulting. She launched her private consulting practice, TSG The Shannon Group, in 2006 where she led senior executives through complex, business transformation initiatives. Clients include FEI/ThermoFisher, Flextronics/NexTracker, HireRight, Hewlett Packard, Xilinx, Virgin Media, JDSU/Lumentum along with dozens of Bay Area mid-market firms. Barbara is a sought-after speaker and author on leadership, strategy and the future of work. She is a fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change. She received her BA from Smith College and her MBA at The Wharton School. If you're curious about Barbara's CEO groups or would like to inquire regarding elite private client service, please email barbara@shannon-solutions.com